20 Attributes of Mystery Babylon
The following list of 20 attributes pertaining to the Kingdom of Babylon the great, mother of harlots, was taken from the website America, the Babylon.
The list is drawn from old and new testament scripture specifically relating to the End-Time Babylonian Kingdom that is destroyed at the commencement of the “Day of the Lord”. It pretty much lays to rest those out dated and bizarre teachings that she is the catholic church or Israel or the re-emergence of a Middle East Nation.
- It is the KEY Commercial Nation and Engine of Wealth for the World’s Economy.
- The chief city of Mystery Babylon is a “DEEP WATER PORT CITY”!!!
- Leading center of imports and consumption.
- She is also a manufacturing nation
- Center for Merchandising and Marketing
- Known as the World’s “policeman”
- Known for “showing the flag” or “gunboat diplomacy”
- Sensual, Materialistic lifestyle
- Intoxicating high-society lifestyle as a world example to emulate
- Elegant, Sumptuous lifestyle
- Noted for its bright gaudy-colored lights and nightlife with round the-clock partying.
- Noted for its Drugs and Drug use
- A land of immigrants
- Land of Rebels in its birth
- Land of Agriculture (when was the last time you saw wheat combines and corn-pickers harvesting crops in Vatican City? How about Hog farming? A cattle ranch?
- Described as a “Land” of many waters. “Land” is a term designating a nation not a city and not an organization or church.
- Where the world’s leaders “stream” to meet (Jer 51:44 — where they all come at once to get together on a regular basis… also Rev. 17:18)
- Last of the Super powers
- Defenses reach up to Outer Space
- AND LAST BUT BY NO MEANS THE LEAST… THE MOST LITERAL OF ALL: –A populated city named Babylon with deepwater port facilities and the city is considered the “chief city” or most important city of the nation. This is how people of the first century AD referred to a nation, by its chief city.